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The FREELAND surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 8,455 3859 0.003 31
United States (1880 census) 2,768 2199 0.006 55
Change since 1880 +5687 -1660 -0.003 -24
Other Countries
Australia 265 5825 0.002 16
United Kingdom 1,001 5258 0.002 22
Top States for FREELAND by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 589 4837 0.002 17
Florida 532 3819 0.003 33
Ohio 522 2643 0.005 46
Michigan 503 2228 0.005 51
Texas 445 4705 0.002 21
Top States for FREELAND by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 302 911 0.017 167
Maryland 427 1415 0.008 81
Idaho 71 2531 0.005 55
Louisiana 234 2508 0.005 52
Michigan 503 2228 0.005 51

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FREELAND live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FREELAND represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FREELAND in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FREELAND by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FREELAND

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FREELAND surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FREELAND surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FREELAND in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 873 10.33
Native American/Alaskan 138 1.63
Mixed Race 130 1.54
White (Hispanic) 112 1.32
Asian/Pacific 31 0.37
White (Caucasian) 7,171 84.81

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FREELAND surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of FREELAND in historical publications

FREELAND. Perhaps local, though the place does not occur. In the H.R. it is Frelond, without prefix.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to FREELAND

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FREELAND.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for FREELAND

The following words are slight variants of FREELAND that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.